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Data often reigns supreme when you're trying to pitch or to persuade. Yet too many numbers can

numb those listening or reading them.

How do we find the sweet spot where numbers are motivating to our audience without complicating

our messages? I'm Matt Abrahams and I teach strategic communication at Stanford Graduate School of

Business. Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.

I am really looking forward to speaking with Chip He.

Chip is the Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor

of Organizational Behavior at the GSB.

His research examines why certain ideas survive and thrive

while others don't. He is the co-author of many

amazing books, including The Power of Moments, Decisive, Switch, and Made to Stick. Chip has a new

book out, Making Numbers Count, the Art and Science of Communicating Numbers. Thanks for being here, Chip. I am a huge

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